Information & Communication Technology (ICT)

Palo Alto – September 22, 2026 -- Aragon Research has published its second annual Globe report for Strategic Response Management (SRM), evaluating 14 technology providers as the market moves from reactive AI assistants to fully autonomous agentic systems.

Market expands beyond RFP automation to cover security questionnaires and complex sales bids

The 2026 Aragon Research Globe for SRM assesses vendors managing not just requests for proposals but also RFIs and security questionnaires, reflecting a broader shift in enterprise response management. Aragon Research CEO and Lead Analyst Jim Lundy stated that the industry is entering the age of the "AI coworker," where autonomous agents handle multi-step tasks without constant human oversight.

Arlington, Va. – September 22, 2026 -- Info-Tech Research Group has named Google Vault, Bloomberg Vault, and Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving as Champions in its 2026 Data Archiving Data Quadrant Report, with Google Vault topping the category at an 8.9 Composite Score.

Google Vault scores 8.9 on quality features, leading the Champion tier

Bloomberg Vault followed with an 8.6 Composite Score, earning top marks for granularity, while Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving posted an 8.5 score, recognized for ease of data integration. The rankings draw on verified end-user feedback collected through Info-Tech's SoftwareReviews platform rather than analyst opinion or vendor input.

Uniondale, N.Y. – September 22, 2026 -- Marquis Who's Who has recognized Nerrissa Williams, manager of release and application operations at The Walt Disney Company, for leadership in enterprise technology delivery spanning more than two decades.

Williams led a December 2023 SAP release that unlocked two Disney initiatives worth $170 million combined

The release served as a critical dependency for two enterprise projects valued at approximately $100 million and $70 million respectively. Its successful execution drew visibility across Disney's technology leadership and demonstrated the operational stakes tied to disciplined release management at a company coordinating rollouts across SAP, Workday, Coupa and Informatica.

Pune – September 22, 2026 -- Bitwise has earned more than 130 Databricks Delivery Expert badges, securing recognition among the top partners in a credentialing program that launched in May 2026 to identify firms with deep migration and modernization expertise across the Databricks ecosystem.

Bitwise Certifications Surpass 330 Across Its Engineering Organization

The Chicago-headquartered engineering firm, which operates delivery centers in Pune, India, has accumulated over 330 Databricks certifications organization-wide. The company also holds Databricks Silver Partner status and was previously named a Databricks Genie GTM Partner for conversational, AI-powered enterprise data access.

Indianapolis – – September 22, 2026 -- CMIT Solutions marked its 30th year in business at CMIT Connect Live! 2026, a multi-day convention in Indianapolis that brought together franchise owners, technicians and technology partners from its national managed IT services and cybersecurity network.

Dayal Bhagat wins top franchise honor for growth across three regions

The Franchise of the Year Award, the event's highest honor, went to Dayal Bhagat, who operates CMIT Solutions locations serving Roanoke, Virginia, and North Charlotte and Statesville, North Carolina. The award recognized sustained business growth, service delivery and alignment with CMIT's core values. Other nominees included Matt McCracken, Mike Minkler, Tom Shirey, Cheryl Nelan and Evan Stein, and Marty and Leslie Wood.

San Jose, Calif. – September 22, 2026 -- The OpenSearch Software Foundation has recorded a 140% year-over-year jump in global project downloads, surpassing 2.4 billion total, as the vendor-neutral search and analytics platform expands its enterprise backing.

Intel, Adelean and Sidecar join as General Members strengthening technical direction

The Foundation announced three new General Members -- Adelean, Intel, and Sidecar -- who will now engage with working groups and help guide technical initiatives. Intel's membership extends its existing open source contributions to OpenSearch, which have focused on hardware-level acceleration to optimize performance.

San Francisco – September 22, 2026 -- Lumos has released MCP Governance, a new capability that checks an AI agent's permissions at the exact moment it attempts an action and blocks it if policy does not allow it, starting with support for Claude Code and Codex.

Lumos measured over 450,000 agent actions in a single week among its own staff of fewer than 200 employees

"We spent twenty years learning to govern humans, and we still have not finished," said Andrej Safundzic, CEO and co-founder of Lumos. "Now we have agents doing the same work ten times faster. That kind of scale is impossible to track with old methods."

An AI agent inherits the permissions of the employee who launched it but then operates at machine speed, meaning an error that might cause a human to delete one Salesforce record could see an agent delete a thousand records in seconds.

San Francisco – September 22, 2026 -- ScamAdviser's Watchmen platform won the Scam Fighter Award at the Global Anti-Scam Summit (GASS) America 2026, organized by the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA) in San Francisco, for its role in cutting fraud detection-to-takedown times from weeks to under 8 hours.

Watchmen deployments contributed to a 38% drop in investment scam financial losses

In deployments with financial regulators, law enforcement agencies, and municipal governments, Watchmen demonstrated national-level impact, including a 38% reduction in the share of investment scam financial losses. The system uses multi-layered filtering, expert rule engines, and Large Language Model (LLM) semantic analysis to monitor corporate communication channels and social media platforms for brand impersonation, triggering automated takedown mechanisms once threats are confirmed.

Munich – September 22, 2026 -- Persistent Systems Limited has secured 83.25% of Nagarro SE's outstanding share capital, clearing the minimum threshold for its EUR 81.00-per-share takeover offer and setting up a delisting from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange's Prime Standard.

Tender results exceed the 50%-plus-one-share minimum acceptance threshold

During the acceptance period that expired at midnight CEST on September 17, 2026, holders tendered 7,568,145 Nagarro shares, equal to approximately 61.15% of total share capital and voting rights. Persistent separately secured a 22.10% stake through a share purchase agreement with Lantano Beteiligungen GmbH, bringing the combined position to 83.25%, excluding treasury shares.

Miami – September 22, 2026 -- Nucleus Research has named Boomi, Matillion, Oracle, Qlik, and Salesforce (Informatica) as Leaders in its 2026 Data Integration Technology Value Matrix, citing a wave of consolidation reversing five years of market unbundling.

Consolidation deals reshape vendor landscape as buyers demand single-platform coverage

Fivetran has merged with dbt Labs, IBM has acquired both StreamSets and Confluent, Salesforce has completed its acquisition of Informatica, and Qlik has folded Talend into its cloud platform. Nucleus Research says these moves mark a reversal of the unbundling trend that defined data integration from 2019 to 2024, as vendors now compete on consolidated support spanning batch ingestion, change data capture, and streaming transformation.